And prayed her quaff; then bathed her brow, a task

That had accompaning tears of joy and vows

Of love, sweet intercourse of eyes and brows,

And many clinging kisses eloquent.

And how, when dressed his arm, behind him bent

She clasped him on the same steed and they went

On thro' the gold wood toward the golden West,

Till on one low hill's forest-covered crest

Up in the gold his castle's battlements pressed.

And then she felt she'd loved him till had come